The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-11-04

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yorr nanis end hand it to her. There Is no
need of wasting time. Those poor children
on the back street have bsen hungry long
enough. That sick man must have some
fartns- That consumptive must have some
thing 10 ease his cough. meet this delegate
Of relief society coming out Of the store Of
such a hard listed man, and say: ibid you
get the money! ''Of course she says Il
got the money; that's what went for The
Lord told me 10 go in and get 1t, and he never
sends me On a fools Grand
Again. l have 10 tell you that it is
woman's specific right TO comfort under the
stress Of dire disaster. She is called the
weaker vessel. but all profane as well as
sacred history attests that when the crisis
comes she is better prepared than man to
meet the emergency. How often YOU have
seen a woman who seemed TO be disciple OF
frivolity and Incidence, who, under one stroke
OF calamity. changed 70 heroine. Oh, what
a great mistake those business men make
who never tell their business troubles to their
wivesi There comes some great loss to their
store, or some OF their companions in busi-
mss play them sad trick and they carry
the burden all alone, He is asked in the house
hold again and again: What is the matteri
but le believes 1t a sort of Christian duty
10 keep all that trouble within his own
soul Oh, your first duty was to tell
your wife all about II. She perhaps might
not have diseutangled your finances Or e1-
tended your credit but she would have
helped you 10 bear misfortune You have no
right 10 carry on one shoulder that which Is
intended for two. There are business men
here who know what l mean. There came
a crisis in your affairs You struggled
braveiy and long, but after while there
came a day when you said: Here | shall
have TO Stop and you called in your part
ners and yon called in the most prominent
g0s to stop You left the store suddenly.
You could hardly make up your mind to pass
through the street and over on the ferrybOat
You felt everybody would be looking at you
and blaming YOU and denouncing YOU YOU
fastened home You told your wife all about
the affair What did she says Did she play
the butterfly Did she talk about the silks and
the ribbons and the fashionsi No. She came
up to the emergency. She quailed not under
the stroke She helped you to begin to plan
right away She Offered to go out of the
comfortable house into a smaller one, and
wear the old cloak another winter She was
one who understood your affairs without
thought was a thin, weak woman's arm hold
ing you up, but while You looked at that arm
there came into the feeble muscles of it the
strength Of the eternal God. No Gliding.
No fretting. No telling you about the beau
tifui house Of her father, from which you
You said: well, this Is the happiest day of
my life am glad have gotten from under
my burden. Ny wife don't care-I don't
care AT the moment you were utterly ex-
hausted, God sent a Deborah to meet
the host OF the Amalekites and scatter them
like chat over the plain There are some
times women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had some
grand field in which to display their Chris
tan powers Oh, what grand and glorious
things they could do if they only had an op-
purtunityi Ny sister, you need not wait for
any such time A crisis will come in your
affairs. There will be a Tharmopyle in
your own household, where God will tell you
70 stand. There are scores and hundreds of
households to-day where as much bravery and
courage are demanded Of woman as was ex-
hibited by Grace Darling, or Marie Antoi-
nette, or Joan Of Arc
Again l remark, it is woman's right to
bring TO US the kingdom of heaven 1t is
easier for a woman to be a Christian than for
a man Whyf You say she is weaker. No.
Her heart is more responsive TO the plsadings
OF divine love. She is in vast majority. The
fact that she can more easily become q Chris
tan, prove by the statement that three
f0urths Of the members of the churches in all
Christendom are women. So God appoints
them TO be the chief agencies for bringing
this world back TO God may stand
here and say the soul is immortal There isa
man who will refute it. l may stand here
and say we arc lost and undone without
Christ There IS man who viii refute it. I
may stand here and say there will be judy
msnt Day after a while. Yonder is some one
who will refute it But Christian woman
IN a Christian household, living in the
faith aud the consistency of Christ's
GOspel-nobody can refute that The
greatest sermons are not preached on cele-
brated platforms; they are preached with an
audience Of two or three, and in private home
life A consistent, consecrated Christian
service is an unanswerable demonstration of
Gods truth A sailor came slipping down
the ratlines one night. as though something
had happened. and the sailors cried: whats
the TnattsrT He said: ''My mothers prayers
haunt me like ghost Home influences,
colsecrated. Christian home influences, are
the mightiest of all influences upon the soul.
There are men mere to-day who have main
tanned their integrity. not because they were
any better naturally than some other people,
but because there were home influences pray
ing for them all the time. They got good
start They were launched on the world
with the benedictiOns Of a Christian mother.
They may track Siberian SHOWS, they may
plunge in African jungles, they may fly 10
the earthls end-they cannot go so far and so
fast but the prayers will keep up with them
stand before women to-day who have the
eternal salvation of their husbands in their
right hand On the marriage day you took
an oath before men and angels that you
would be faithful and kind until death did
yOn part, and believe you are going TO keep
that oath; but after that parting at the door
OF the grave will il be an eternal separatlonl
Is there any such thing as an immortal mar
riage, making the flowers that grow on the
top OF the sepulcher brighter thsn the gar
lands which at the marriage banquet fooled
the air with aroma, Yes; stand here as a
priest Of the most high God, to proclaim the
banns OF an immortal union for all those who
join hands in the grace OF Christ. o woman,
Is your husbanl your father, your son, away
from God The Lord demands their redemp-
ton at your hands There are prayers for
you to offer, there are exhortations for you
to give, there are examples for you to set;
and | say now, as Paul said to the Corinthian
woman: What knowest thou woman, but
thou canst save thy husbandr
i man was dying; and he said TO his wife:
"Rebecca, you wouldn't let me have family
prayers; and you laughed about all that, and
you got me away into worl1liness: and now
am going to die, and my fate is sealed, and
you are the cause OF my ruin" woman.
what knowest thou but thou canst destroy
thy hushandi Are there not some here who
have kindly influences at home: Are there
not some here who have wandered far away
from God who can remember the Christian
influences in the early homei Do not de-
spise those influences, my brother. If you
die without Christ, what will you do
with your mothers prayers, with your
wife's opportunities, with your sisters
entreaties. What will You do with
the letters they used 10 write to you, with
the memory Of those days when they attended
you 50 kindly in times OF sicknessi Oh, If
there be Just one strand holding you from
floating of on that dark sea, / would just
like this morning TO take hold Of that strand
and pull you to the beach, For the sake OF
your wifeis God, for the sake of your mothers
God. for the sake OF your daughters God for
the sake Of your sisters God, come this day
and be saved
Lastly, l wish to say that one OF the specific
rights Of woman is through the grace Of
Christ. finally to reach Heaven, Mary.
Christ's mother, in Heaven: Elizabeth Fry in
Heaven; Charlotte Elizabeth in Heaven; the
mother Of Augustine in Heaven; the Countess
Of Huntingdon-who sold her splendid jewels
- build chapels-in Heaven: while a great
many others who have never been heard of
on earth or known but little, have gone into